Jonathan S. Bain, Esq.

Jonathan Bain, the founder of Intangible Strategies, is a software developer and attorney with over 20 years of experience in the software industry.

During his career in high-technology, Bain has held positions in business development, software development and law. His legal responsibilities have ranged from Associate at Hale and Dorr to General Counsel of Object Design. His technical responsibilities have ranged from lead architect for an innovative groupware product to training Fortune 100 companies in the use of decision-support systems.

In both a legal and a business-development capacity, Bain has structured innovative strategic partnerships with some of the leading players in the software, computer and telecommunications industries, including:

These transactions employed a wide range of partnering structures, including:

• Equity investments
• Product-development joint ventures
• Technology cross-licenses
• Joint marketing relationships
• OEM relationships

In addition to his transactional experience, Bain has an extensive background in developing and managing intellectual property portfolios for cutting-edge software companies.

Bain's principal areas of expertise in software development include:

• Object-oriented languages and design
• DBMS and file-system internals
• Text retrieval and manipulation
• AI and expert systems
• Groupware and knowledge management

Bain is also an active mediator and arbitrator, specializing in the resolution of complex intellectual property disputes.

Bain holds a BA from Dartmouth College, a JD from Yale Law School, and has pursued advanced studies at the Yale School of Management.  He is the Co-Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee of the ABA's Dispute Resolution Section, and is a member of the ABA's Intellectual Property Section, the Licensing Executives Society and the Association of Computing Machinery.